Jacques Daget (30 June 1919,
Vineuil – 29 June 2009), was a French
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
. He was a professor at the
National Museum of Natural History, in Paris.
Several marine species have been named after him.
Species named after him
Species named after Daget include:
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Claroteidae ''Chrysichthys dageti'' Risch 1992
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Cichlidae
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted thi ...
''Tilapia dageti'' Thys van den Audenaerde 1971
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Nothobranchiidae ''Epiplatys dageti dageti''
Poll, 1953
* Nothobranchiidae ''Epiplatys dageti monroviae'' Arnoult & Daget 1965
See also
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:Taxa named by Jacques Daget
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:species:Jacques Daget
References
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1919 births
2009 deaths
French ichthyologists
20th-century French zoologists